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Tiradito recipe: Lima's sashimi-style answer to ceviche
Chef Virgilio Martínez of Central, ranked Latin America's best restaurant, slices white fish sashimi-thin and dresses it with lime and ají amarillo — no marinating required.
Best restaurants in Lima 2026: 14 tables worth booking
Maido, Central, Kjolle and Mérito lead a list that runs down to beef-heart anticuchos and pan con chicharrón: where to book in Lima before the 50 Best ceremony on 4 November.
Daddy Yankee restaurant Cholapink sets 28 October opening
Lima chef Jaime Pesaque runs the kitchen of a 60-seat fast-casual room on Spring Street in Manhattan, built around anticuchos, ceviche and a pink pisco sour.
Peru's chuncho cacao draws buyers to Cusco fair
Eight buyers from six countries toured plantations in La Convención this month, as Peru's cacao and derivative exports hit a record $1.57 billion in 2025.
50 Best 51-100 list: Europe leads, Berlin places three
Nine new entries, five of them in Asia, and Mexico with five of six North American places: the extended ranking lands two weeks before the Lima ceremony.
50 Best Signature Sessions: Niland and the Torres twins in Lima
Six visiting kitchens, from Barcelona to Sydney and the Indian Himalaya, will cook in Lima restaurants in the week The World's 50 Best Restaurants is announced there.
Virgilio Martínez says recognition was never the goal
In a new interview, the chef behind Lima's Central reflects on what winning the world's top restaurant ranking in 2023 changed, and what it never did.
Expoalimentaria 2026 opens in Lima with coca beer on the shelf
Peru's biggest food trade fair runs 23 to 25 September at the Jockey Exhibition Centre, with more than 700 exhibitors and an innovation contest that ranges from mango-passion fruit chocolate to a prebiotic mint drink.
Peru blueberry exports cut again as El Niño strengthens
Proarándanos now expects 382,000 tonnes for 2026-27, 6% below its August figure, as Peru's forecasters see an extraordinary coastal El Niño lasting into 2027.
Panama hosts the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Latin America final
Fifteen cooks from across the region, including four from Colombia, two from Peru and one from Chile, compete in Panama City from September 27 for a place in Milan's 2027 grand finale.
What to eat in Lima: 10 dishes and where to find them
The World's 50 Best Restaurants is handed out in Lima on 4 November. Before the tasting menus fill up, here is the city the cooks themselves eat in, market counters included.
The World's 50 Best Restaurants land in Lima on 4 November
Peru gets the ceremony for the first time in the list's history, eight months after Abu Dhabi was announced as host and then quietly dropped from the calendar.
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